Definitions

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  • adverb In a gloating manner.

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  • adverb in a gloating manner

Etymologies

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gloating +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • "Silence all," he called gloatingly, "for a mother's last words to her children."

    Peter Pan 1898

  • 'Silence all,' he called gloatingly, 'for a mother's last words to her children.'

    Peter and Wendy F. D. [Illustrator] Bedford 1898

  • Hamza said a 2004 article in the government owned Al-Ahram newspaper "gloatingly" confirmed that he was no longer an Egyptian national.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Sitting at the bar with his ex-wife, his paw round a little glass of something or other, Baldwin-as-Jake is florid, potent, gloatingly and inflatedly masculine, like a genie who came out of a bottle of aftershave.

    Double-X Films 2009

  • Sitting at the bar with his ex-wife, his paw round a little glass of something or other, Baldwin-as-Jake is florid, potent, gloatingly and inflatedly masculine, like a genie who came out of a bottle of aftershave.

    Double-X Films 2009

  • Sitting at the bar with his ex-wife, his paw round a little glass of something or other, Baldwin-as-Jake is florid, potent, gloatingly and inflatedly masculine, like a genie who came out of a bottle of aftershave.

    Double-X Films 2009

  • Sitting at the bar with his ex-wife, his paw round a little glass of something or other, Baldwin-as-Jake is florid, potent, gloatingly and inflatedly masculine, like a genie who came out of a bottle of aftershave.

    Double-X Films 2009

  • Sitting at the bar with his ex-wife, his paw round a little glass of something or other, Baldwin-as-Jake is florid, potent, gloatingly and inflatedly masculine, like a genie who came out of a bottle of aftershave.

    Double-X Films 2009

  • Sitting at the bar with his ex-wife, his paw round a little glass of something or other, Baldwin-as-Jake is florid, potent, gloatingly and inflatedly masculine, like a genie who came out of a bottle of aftershave.

    Double-X Films 2009

  • Sitting at the bar with his ex-wife, his paw round a little glass of something or other, Baldwin-as-Jake is florid, potent, gloatingly and inflatedly masculine, like a genie who came out of a bottle of aftershave.

    Double-X Films 2009

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